Shoe-lace tip



March 1s 1924.

w. F. W. PULVER Filed Aug. ,23l 1921 SHOE LACE TIP 31a/manioc atroz m Patented Mar. 18, 1924.

UNITED s'rales SHOE-LACE TIP.

Application lcd August'23, 1921.l Serial No. 494,699.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that WYLLIS F. lV. PULvnR, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Rensselaer, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, has invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Lace Tips, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive shoe lace tip which in addition to being readily applicable is adapted to be retained in its position on the lace against displacement by ordinary strains to which the same may be subjected; and with this object in View theinvention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of a tip embodying the invention applied in the operative position to a shoe lace.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken longitudinally of the same.

Figure 3 is a view of the blank from which the lace tip is formed. Y

Figure 4 is aview of the blank with the spurs deflected from the plane of the plate as they should be disposed prior to the rolling of the blank upon the lace end.

Figures 5 and 6 are respectively transverse and longitudinal sectional views of thc tip.

The tip l() which is shown in the drawing as applied to the extremity of a lace 11 which may be of any preferred construction consists of a blank of sheet metal as indicated in Figure 3, oi' substantially oblong form slightly reduced or tapered toward one end and provided at an intermediate point,

Vrality of preferably about mid-way of one side edge with a spur 12 adapted to be deflected from the plane of the plate to a position substantially perpendicular thereto as shown in Figure 4c prior to the rolling of the tip sol as to occupy a substantially diametrical position to the nished tip'yto pass into or penetrate the lace and thus lock the tip thereto as shown in Figure 5.

At the base or larger end edge of the blank there are provided two spurs 13 and 14, one Y of which is located at the side edge carrying said spur 12 and the other is locatedr about mid-way of the widthy oic the blank, so that when the blank is rolled, beginning with the edge carrying the spur 12 the spurs successively engage and penetrate the lace, the spurs 1.3 and 14 preferably being inclined toward the outer cndoi the blank so as to be opposed to any tendency to slide the tip from the end of the lace. The edge o1" the blank which is opposite to that carrying the spur 12 is plain and is adapted to appear on the surface of the finished tip so as to afford no roughness or obstruction to the insertion of the tip into the eyelet of the shoe,

glove or other article of apparel.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A lacing tip consisting of a rolled blank of oblong form provided at one side edge with a spur and at its rear edge with a pluspurs for penetrating the lace, the spurs at the rear end of the blank being arranged respectively at the side edge carrying the first named spur and at a point Vabout mid-way of the width of the blank In testimony whereof he aiiixes his signature. Y Y

Y WYLLIS F. W. PULVER. 

